Change Date Format in Adobe Signature

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do you need your pdf form to show the current date as soon as someone opens it up hey it's reit here from essatino media helping you create profitable content and in today's video i'm going to show you exactly how to add a date field in adobe acrobat pro dc that automatically fills in today's date into your pdf this is just a nice feature for whoever's filling out your form because it already has today's date and it's going to be accurate so they don't have to fill it out themselves so let me show you how to do this so i have the exact same form pulled up except it's just without the fillable fields this is typically how i design pdf forms i've designed hundreds of these and what i do first is create all of the boxes and then i go in and make them fillable ing to whatever features we need so for this field you need to have a space on your document to create that date field so it's a two-step process step number one is we're going to create the date field first thing you need to do is come over here to the bottom where you see that wrench and it says more tools and i'm going to click on that and then we're going to select prepare form so that should bring in a bunch of editing tools up at the top if you don't see this here and you just see a button that says edit then click on edit and it should bring up all of these tools for you so what we're going to do is create a date field and we don't want to use the original calendar field here we're going to create it as a text field this icon right here so you don't want to use the date field right here let's use the text one so you can click on it you can click and drag and release or you can double click and then as soon as you start to move your cursor towards that box you can just align the corners of the cross hairs with the corner of that field and then click down that's kind of the easy way that i use to align the box with the box that's already on the pdf and then i can just kind of click and drag these little dots these white dots to make it fit into place so the next thing you want to do is right click go to properties and then in the general tab we're going to give this a name so i'm just going to use date and if you already have another field with the name date then you want to use something different because in the second step it's going to need this information to make the date field autofill so make sure this is a unique name the other thing i'm going to do in appearance is just change the fill color to gray you might not need to do this but i need to do this because if i don't change it if there's no color then i can see the notes that i have but if you already don't have any notes then you should see something like this the other thing we need to do is in the format tab you want to select the form category which is going to be date and then select the format that you want the date to show up as and you can see an example of what it'll look like down here so i typically like to go with this one right here and whatever you select i want you to make a note of this date format so if you selected this one make a note that it's m d slash yyyy because again we're going to use this as data in the second step last thing as well i forgot to mention let's go back to the general tab and change this down here under common properties to read only then we're going to hit close okay so you can see here if i preview it it's a gray field pretty straightforward right now you can't really fill it out it's a read-only field so we're going to do something here to program it so that it automatically fills up this date this is step two so in step 2 we're going to add a little bit of javascript now don't get intimidated or overwhelmed i am not a javascript person when it comes to pdf or javascript programmer but this is super simple i'm going to give you the javascript that you need to paste in on your end it's going to be down in the description below so you can just copy that and literally paste it right into where i'm going to show you so i want you to go to view at the top show hide navigation panes and page thumbnails if you already see the page thumbnails on the side then you don't need to do this but because i don't see that pain already then i need to pull that up so i'm going to select page thumbnails it's going to bring this up so again if you already see this you don't need to do that step you're already here so what you need to do is right click select page properties and then go to the actions tab if by the way you have multiple pages and make sure you're on the page that has the date field that's the one that you want to right click on to pull up this page properties so select trigger we can leave it on page open select action we're going to select all the way down here run a javascript click on add and then it's going to bring up this box now the code that you see in the description is what you're going to paste right here so copy that text exactly then come in here right click paste and then it's kind of zoomed in like a lot it's really big right now so i'm just gonna make this bigger so we can see but yours will look smaller it's just really massive because i'm zoomed in on my laptop now remember those two pieces of data that i told you to keep track of we're gonna need to switch out this information that's between the quotation marks so whatever you named that date field you're gonna replace it with right here so make sure it says date if you named that field date or if you named it something else make sure you put that in here and the format that you chose for that date field should match this exactly right here so i chose m d slash yyyy again we can double check this but once you've put in that exact format you can hit ok and then hit ok again and now i'm going to test this so just save the file anywhere on your desktop so i'm going to save it as test hit save now we're going to open it up and then see what happens okay cool there you go let me zoom in so you can see that so see how it automatically has the date in here it does get cut off uh because my field is quite narrow maybe yours won't get cut off if you find this is happening like you have a really narrow field to work with then all you need to do is adjust the size of this text so all that means is you got to come back to the wrench the more tools area hit prepare form and then right click on this field go to properties appearance change the font size to maybe yeah nine looks good and then let's preview that that fits nicely in the box and there you have it that's how you insert a date field into your pdf that automatically fills out upon opening the pdf if you need help with designing your pdf document or form or making it fillable then i'd be happy to help you out i've designed hundreds of these and depending on what you need we can add drop downs check boxes date time fields all that kind of stuff i'll put my email address in the description below in case you need help with your pdf form thank you so much for watching remember to hit like on this video and i'll see you in the next one bye